George Szirtes è un acclamato poeta e traduttore la cui opera è profondamente plasmata dalle sue esperienze di rifugiato dall'Ungheria. La sua poesia esplora spesso temi di identità, memoria e sradicamento culturale con un occhio attento ai dettagli e un forte senso del ritmo. Lo stile distintivo di Szirtes fonde la riflessione personale con indagini filosofiche più ampie, offrendo ai lettori esplorazioni avvincenti e perspicaci. Il suo esteso lavoro di traduzione dall'ungherese ha arricchito il panorama letterario, dimostrando una profonda comprensione della poesia attraverso le lingue.
Le poesie di George Szirtes esplorano temi come storia, arte, amore e fragilità, riflettendo anche sulla politica della fragilità. Con l'avanzare dell'età, si rivolge al metafisico, ma una parte di lui rimarrà sempre ancorata alla realtà quotidiana e al suono della strada.
New collection of poems set in the Delta, with The Yellow Room at its core, a sequence of mirror poems contemplating the Jewishness of the poet's father.
Set against the backdrop of a small Hungarian town, the arrival of a circus heralds a series of surreal and chaotic events. Promising to showcase the largest whale's stuffed body, the circus ignites bizarre rumors and fears among the townsfolk, who desperately seek order amidst growing chaos. Central to this tale are memorable characters, including the scheming Mrs. Eszter and the naive Valuska, whose innocence stands in stark contrast to the surrounding turmoil. The narrative unfolds like a slow, powerful river, immersing readers in its dark, intense atmosphere.
A poet's memoir of his mother that flows backwards through time, and excavates a shard of European history - a deeply honest, tender and yet unsentimental autobiographical journey.
George Szirtes fled from Budapest with his family after the 1956 Hungarian uprising. Many of these poems relate to his arrival in England as a young child, and to the themes of identity, memory, belonging, war, and upheaval, with a sequence on living now in a country under siege from coronavirus.
One of several major British poets who took their work to Bloodaxe following the closure of OUP's poetry list in 1999, George Szirtes has published seven books with Bloodaxe, including Reel, which won him the T.S. Eliot Prize for 2004, New & Collected Poems and The Burning of the Books, shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize in 2009.
This anthology of new writing promotes contemporary literature of the English language from Britain and the rest of the Commonwealth. It contains new names among older, recognizable names and includes short stories, poems, novels in progress and short fiction.
The title-poem of George Szirtes' The Burning of the Books and Other Poems is the core of this collection of narrative sequences by a writer who came to Britain after the Hungarian Uprising. Two further sequences are concerned with history and documentary. Poetry Book Society Recommendation, shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize.
Covers themes such as love, desire and illusion; loyalty and betrayal; history, art and memory; and, humanity and truth. This work includes The Photographer in Winter, Metro, The Courtyards, An English Apocalypse and Reel.